Example sentences of "[been] [adj] come up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only figure that they have been prepared to come up with is bad enough — the initial cost of all the preparatory work involved in making drawings , hiring expensive barristers to put the Bill through the House , and so on . |
| 2 | Meetings between the Prime Minister ; Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment ; and Nigel Lawson , Chancellor of the Exchequer , have been unable to come up with an agreed solution to put to today 's Cabinet . |
| 3 | I 'd got the riding gear from Duncan , but he 'd been unable to come up with a red helmet with black visor . |
| 4 | In the five months of the review Mr Heseltine has been unable to come up with , as Labour pointed out , a single extra tonne of coal in terms of orders . |
| 5 | Even in the ‘ settled ’ areas , where the US and the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control ( UNFDAC ) have been active , efforts to eradicate opium by crop substitution have run into trouble for one simple reason : in 30 years , no one has been able to come up with a product as lucrative and easy to market as opium . |
| 6 | I think with myself , what I have been able to come up with is being very normal , and everyday people find you easy to relate to and not a threat to them . |
| 7 | People in my trade are supposed to be able to help , but I 've only been able to come up with the old platitude : ‘ Do n't buy a £500 car from a dealer because you 'll only get £100 worth of vehicle — the rest will be profit . ’ |
| 8 | To date , no one has been able to come up with a satisfactory explanation . |
| 9 | HP would know something about the exercise since it 's trying to do the same thing and the best it 's been able to come up with is the diskless 16Mb 715/33 for $5,700 or 525Mb 715/33 for $7,400 . |
| 10 | Well , it was the best he had been able to come up with and , if it was not sufficient , he could not think what else he could do . |
| 11 | So far I have not been able to come up with any musical symbol that has not been catered for , whether arranging for full orchestra , brass-band or choir — with the single exception of guitar chord symbols . |
| 12 | Zen decided to give him the only answer he had been able to come up with . |
| 13 | I mean , when we was in opposition , if er , if we had a Westminster crisis in Lincolnshire and it suddenly kicked all the conservatives off , we would have been able to come up with an alternative budget to manage this county . |
| 14 | The main problem has been we have n't been able to come up to EC standards . |